Philippa Coningsby

Philippa Coningsby (née Fitzwilliam (died 1596) was an English aristocrat, a daughter of William FitzWilliam of Milton.

She married Sir Thomas Coningsby and had 11 children.

[2][3] As wife of Sir Thomas Coningsby she lived at Leominster and Hampton Court, Herefordshire, where their monogram "TCP" was carved in several places.

Coningsby wrote in a letter to Sir Robert Cecil that his wife was his "near kinswoman".

In 1617, an unmarried cousin of her husband, Joyce Jeffreys, who was born at Ham Castle at Clifton-upon-Teme, joined the household to be a "perpetual companion" to the younger Philippa Coningsby.

Lady Coningsby in 1578, painting by George Gower [ 1 ]